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1955 / FANGIO

A scrolling recap of 1955 in six acts. The champion, the constructor, the bump chart, and the race-by-race podiums.

ACT 1 CUMULATIVE TRAJECTORY

The points reel out, race after race.

Every line is a driver's running championship total. The heaviest three at the top are the ones who mattered. Juan Manuel Fangio closed the year on 40 points, a 17-point gap over P2.

DATA TABLE · CUMULATIVE POINTS

Cumulative points by driver and round for 1955
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07
Juan Manuel Fangio	9	10	10	19	27	33	40
Stirling Moss	1	1	1	7	13	22	23
Eugenio Castellotti	0	6	6	6	8	8	12
Maurice Trintignant	3	11	11	11	11	11	11
Nino Farina	3	6	6	10	10	10	10
Piero Taruffi	0	0	0	0	0	3	9
Bob Sweikert	0	0	8	8	8	8	8
Roberto Mieres	2	2	2	3	7	7	7
Jean Behra	0	2	2	3	3	3	6
Luigi Musso	0	0	0	0	4	6	6

ACT 2 CONSTRUCTORS

Two-car teams, one trophy.

The constructors' championship is a different game — both cars score. A team can win it with consistent doubles even when neither driver leads the standings.

DATA

Constructor championship standings for 1955
POS	CONSTRUCTOR	PTS

ACT 3 STANDINGS BUMP

Position by position, week to week.

Cumulative points hide where the order actually changed. The bump chart ranks every driver after each race — every crossing of lines is somebody passing somebody in the table.

DRIVER TRACES · TAP TO ISOLATE

DATA TABLE · OFFICIAL RANK BY ROUND

Official championship rank by driver and round for 1955
DRIVER	R01	R02	R03	R04	R05	R06	R07
Juan Manuel Fangio	P1	P2	P2	P1	P1	P1	P1
Stirling Moss	P7	P11	P16	P5	P2	P2	P2
Eugenio Castellotti	—	P4	P5	P6	P6	P6	P3
Maurice Trintignant	P2	P1	P1	P2	P3	P3	P4
Nino Farina	P2	P3	P4	P3	P4	P4	P5
Piero Taruffi	—	—	—	—	—	P14	P6
Bob Sweikert	—	—	P3	P4	P5	P5	P7
Roberto Mieres	P5	P8	P13	P13	P7	P7	P8
Jean Behra	—	P6	P11	P10	P12	P13	P9
Luigi Musso	—	—	—	—	P8	P8	P10
Karl Kling	P7	P11	P16	P18	P19	P9	P11
Jimmy Davies	—	—	P6	P7	P8	P10	P12
Paul Russo	—	—	P7	P8	P10	P11	P13
Tony Bettenhausen	—	—	P7	P8	P10	P11	P13
Johnny Thomson	—	—	P9	P11	P13	P14	P15

ACT 4 RACE-BY-RACE

16 drivers stood on a podium.

4 different drivers won a race. Tap any chip to pin a driver's appearances across the calendar — the matching tiles light up. Empty bars mean a race where the chosen driver missed the top three.

PODIUM DRIVERS

R01 ARGENTIN

1 FANGIO

2 GONZÁLEZ

3 FARINA

R02 MONACO

1 TRINTIGNANT

2 CASTELLOTTI

3 BEHRA

R03 INDIANAP

1 SWEIKERT

2 BETTENHAUSEN

3 RUSSO

R04 BELGIUM

1 FANGIO

2 MOSS

3 FARINA

R05 NETHERLA

1 FANGIO

2 MOSS

3 MUSSO

R06 GREAT BR

1 MOSS

2 FANGIO

3 KLING

R07 ITALY

1 FANGIO

2 TARUFFI

3 CASTELLOTTI

DATA TABLE · RACE PODIUMS

Race-by-race podium finishers for 1955
ROUND	RACE	P1	P2	P3
R01 · Gran Premio de Argentina 1955	Gran Premio de Argentina 1955	FANGIO	GONZÁLEZ	FARINA
R02 · Grand Prix de Monaco 1955	Grand Prix de Monaco 1955	TRINTIGNANT	CASTELLOTTI	BEHRA
R03 · 1955 Indianapolis 500	1955 Indianapolis 500	SWEIKERT	BETTENHAUSEN	RUSSO
R04 · 1955 Belgian Grand Prix	1955 Belgian Grand Prix	FANGIO	MOSS	FARINA
R05 · Grote Prijs van Nederland 1955	Grote Prijs van Nederland 1955	FANGIO	MOSS	MUSSO
R06 · 1955 RAC British Grand Prix	1955 RAC British Grand Prix	MOSS	FANGIO	KLING
R07 · Gran Premio d'Italia 1955	Gran Premio d'Italia 1955	FANGIO	TARUFFI	CASTELLOTTI

EPILOGUE BY THE NUMBERS

The year in five numbers.

ROUNDS

7

DRIVERS

25

WINNERS

4

PODIUM·DRIVERS

16

POINTS·SHARED

167

CHAMPION

Juan Manuel Fangio

40 PTS · 4 WINS

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